From: Stephen Kitt Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: G++ for NT 4.0? Date: 19 Feb 1997 16:46:56 +0000 Organization: Dept of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University, Scotland Lines: 36 Sender: stephenk AT dougal DOT dai DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk Message-ID: References: <330640B0 DOT 7579 AT fieldhouse DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dougal.dai.ed.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Martin Fieldhouse writes: > I run NT 4.0 server at home. I would like to install whatever software > necessary to have the following: > 1. Unix shell > 2. G++ compiler > 3. Libraries such as Iostream.h, iomanip.h ... etc. > > Accordingly, I have two questions: > 1. Is this possible? > 2. Specifically, what do I need to download and where can I get it? NT Server at home??? :-) You could use DJGPP, as has been mentioned previously - this would allow you to write programs for DOS and Win32 (the latter with some problems). I'd also recommend checking out Cygnus GNU (http://www.cygnus.com); this has Win32 ports of a fair amount of GNU stuff, including bash (the Unix shell) and gcc. It's still beta, but it's already quite cool... If you want to get Cygnus, check out the Web site. The files are mirrored in a number of places... Go and have a look in /pub/gnu-win32/latest on ftp.cygnus.com; there's a README and a FAQ, plus a load of .tar.gz and utilities to unpack them. The README has details, but here's a summary: get cygwin.dll, tar.exe and gunzip.exe, then download any packages you want, or all.tar.gz for the whole lot (it's available as a single 10MB file or as multiple files in /pub/gnu-win32/latest/all). Then follow the instructions in README to set the system up, read the FAQ, and start programming... Stephen -- Stephen Kitt, Edinburgh University; my views are my own Email: s.kitt at ed.ac.uk; web: http://omni.bus.ed.ac.uk/skk "It's kind of fun to do the impossible" -- Walt Disney